.\" Man page contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
.\" and released under the Quantlib license
.TH QUANTLIB-BENCHMARK 1 "02 November 2006" QuantLib
.SH NAME
quantlib-benchmark - performance benchmark executable for QuantLib
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B quantlib-benchmark
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B quantlib-benchmark
is created at compile-time from the \fIQuantLib\fP sources using the
\fBoost test framework\fP tools.  It measures the performance of a 
preselected set of numerically intensive test cases. The overall 
QuantLib Benchmark Index is given by the average  performance in mflops.
The number of floating point operations of a given test case was measured
using the perfex library, see 
.IR http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr .
.SH SEE ALSO
The source code in the
.I test-suite
directory of the
.I QuantLib
sources,
the QuantLib documentation and website at
.I https://www.quantlib.org
and the Boost documentation and website at
.IR https://www.boost.org .

.SH AUTHORS
The QuantLib Group (see
.IR Contributors.txt ).

This manual page was added by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>,
the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for
.BR QuantLib .
